While in the past Bas has based series on the Hardy Boys mysteries and Moby-Dick, here his inspirations seem more atomized: The works recall illustrations from early twentieth-century boy's adventure stories, shot through with allusions to Dennis Cooper, the pre-Raphaelites, and other literary and art-historical sources.

Woolley, curator of the Natural History Museum's mineral collection, and square-as-a-Rubik-cube-factory classical guitarist, John Williams, most of my heroes were fictional: the Hardy Boys, a couple of Bagginses, or the Cyclops from the Warlock of Firetop Mountain.

The second installment in Mabel Maney's 007-and-a-half-series has Jane masquerading as twin bro James, whose career of "boozing, bullets, and broads" has finally caught up with him, to infiltrate a men only spy convention in Las Vegas, Haney has a gift For serving up queer sensibility cloaked as snappy '60s idiom and for propelling plot with a narrative style reminiscent of Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys.

The professor teaching Western Terrorism Literature 1970-2002 might open with the observation that the works of the period have their roots in The Hardy Boys adventure stories--The Sinister Signpost, The Secret Warning, While the Clock Ticked, Mystery of the Desert Giant.

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